Can't See Me

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"Can't See Me"
Single by Ian Brown
from the album Unfinished Monkey Business
Released8 June 1998
RecordedManchester/Chiswick Reach Studios, London
Genre Alternative, dance-rock
Length4:54
3:56 (Bacon & Quarmby Remix)
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Brown, Mounfield
Producer(s) Ian Brown
Ian Brown singles chronology
"Corpses"
(1998)
"Can't See Me"
(1998)
"Be There"
(1999)

"Can't See Me" is a song by Ian Brown. It was written by Brown and Mani and produced by Brown. The song was remixed by Bacon & Quarmby and released as the third single from Brown's debut solo album Unfinished Monkey Business . It was released in June 1998, and rose to number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] The song's lyrics refer to an incident when Brown saw His former Stone Roses band-mate John Squire in a village in Hale, Greater Manchester, not long after the split of the band. According to this story, Brown waved to Squire, but Squire hid behind a newspaper and would not acknowledge him.

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Recording

In an interview with Making Music in 1998, Brown spoke about the song:

It came from Mani sitting down with his portastudio and coming up with a bassline, but we only found out last week that Reni doesn't actually play on it - it's a breakbeat Mani sampled. I thought it was a sample Reni took from the studio that Mani played to, but it was actually a breakbeat.
I've got a big pillowcase of tapes at home of Roses live shows and rehearsals and stuff, and I was just going through them one day and I found this bassline and remembered it. So I phoned him up, said, 'Can I put some Iyrics over this for my record ?' and he said, 'Course you can'.

Track listing

Enhanced Maxi-Single CD 1
  1. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) - 3:56
  2. "Can't See Me" (Harvey's Invisible Mix) - 4:40
  3. "Come Again (Part 2)" - 3:51
  4. "My Star" (CD-Rom Video)
Enhanced Maxi Single CD 2 Enhanced
  1. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) - 3:56
  2. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) - 5:02
  3. "Under The Paving Stones: The Beach" (Gabriel's 13th Dream Remix) - 4:39
  4. "Corpses" (CD-Rom Video)
7" Vinyl Single
  1. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) - 3:56
  2. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) - 5:02
12" Vinyl Single
  1. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Remix) - 3:56
  2. "Can't See Me" (Bacon & Quarmby Vocal Dub) - 5:02
  3. "Can't See Me" (Harvey's Invisible Mix) - 4:37
  4. "Can't See Me" (Harvey's Instrumental Mix) - 4:37
  5. "Under The Paving Stones: The Beach" (Gabriel's 13th Dream Remix) - 4:27

Personnel

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